Other forms: seances
A seance is a meeting held to try to contact the dead. Hold a seance, at the seance, a Victorian seance.
They were an enormous Victorian craze, and the effects were produced by conjuring: Houdini spent his later years exposing mediums, having gone looking sincerely and found fraud every time. The word is French and means simply a sitting.
1nounseanceA meeting held to try to contact the dead.
“At the seance, everyone held hands around the table while the medium called out to the spirits.”
seance is a meeting.
French
séance
English, today
seance
Borrowed from French séance.
Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA
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